Word: idols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reviews, carried them to a nursing home where lay Dramatist Moore, and piled the printed praise upon his lap. Dazed at first, he murmured, "My cup of bliss is full." Later the intoxication of success caused his Irish spirits to mount until he not only boasted of becoming "an idol of the English public" but added blatantly...
...Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett troupe had found. Their muleteers ran fearfully away, carrying with them the supplies. Gregory Mason, scribe, fell from the top of the pyramid and hurt himself...
...quite unknown outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
...California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most popular idol, Frémont was elected U. S. Senator. He spent little time in Washington and was defeated for a second term. So he took a trip to Europe with Jessie...
...America's air idol and far too valuable to aviation to risk an unfortunate accident. An accident to him would be a serious blow to the future of aviation, and I am going to ask him to confine his activities to ordinary flying in the future...